Bloody welding gear........
I was helping a mate use an old oil cooled electric welder to stick together a new trailer from scratch.... Lumps of angle iron, a hitch, jockey wheel and 2 stub axles.... plus assorted sheet's of plywood etc....

so...

there we were, cutting and welding blah de blah....

when it started to rain...

PISSED buckets it did..... so.. we took shelter yes?

no.

carried on we did.....

then me mate (who was welding) asked me to hold one of the axle plates in place while he did the spot welds....

Ok... sez me, and for better grip, grabbed hold of the frame of the trailer....

with no gloves on....


and its raining.....



can you guess where the ground wire of the welder was?




as me mate was just about to touch the plate with the welder, I suddenly realised what was about to happen...

me in the middle, acting as a giant fuse.

I dont remember much after that, but me mate said that I actually kicked the trailer that hard as I jumped away, I bent the chassis....

that was the end of me and welding....

:-)
( TBL I posted this on, Sat 27 Nov 2004, 1:46, Reply)